TSMC’s 3nm Conundrum, Does It Even Make Sense? Density improvements are 56%, with a 40% cost increase. This results in an 11% cost per transistor improvement, the weakest ever scaling for a major process technology in 50+ years. Most chip designs will not achieve the 56% density improvement, but instead a much lower ~30%. This would imply a cost per transistor increase
The untold story of Indian IT industry: Dr Homi Bhabha was actually the creator of many things that are relevant to India today, including computers. Bhabha wrote a report at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1959 on the need for computer education and the need for India to embark on a computer industry.
“In 1962, TIFR released the first digital computer for scientific applications - ‘TIFRAC’. Joined MTech computer science in 1965 when IIT Kanpur started the first computer science school. We need to recognise all these events and people and as the starting points for this industry in India”.
Apple Suppliers Accelerate Buildup Outside China: A legion of skilled workers who'd received some education and training has been the backbone of China's rise as the world's factory. A direct replacement for China isn't immediately in the cards, however firms like Foxconn Pegatron are putting the foundations in place to handle more of the final assembly and packaging of products outside China.
- Apple looking to move production of Mac Pro to Vietnam. Vietnam has attracted 21 Apple suppliers to operate in the country.
- Foxconn building hostel to house 60,000 employees in Tamil Nadu
Cars? In this economy?Car-free streets are here to stay. Here’s how four cities took back miles of pavement from cars, making a popular pandemic solution into a permanent fixture.
A trash heap 62 meters high in India: Over decades, dangerous toxins have seeped into the ground, polluting the water supply for thousands of residents living nearby. “The methane leak from this landfill would have the same climate impact as emissions from 350,000 US cars”.
'Asking for a friend': Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff told employees in a Slack message that the company’s newest hires aren’t being productive enough, and he asked for feedback as to why that’s the case. “Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture?” he asked in a message viewed by CNBC. He said he was “asking for a friend,” a phrase people often use on the internet to humorously reveal their curiosity about a topic.
Management lessons from Marc B:
1. CEO poses important directional issues as questions rather than commands.
2. CEO shows gratitude for feedback.
3. Trust as a primary company value.
TSMC's 3nm Node: No SRAM scaling implies more expensive chips
‘Respect the Laxman Rekha’: : Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar criticises SC. . . . . .More power to you, Sir! No one relinquishes power voluntarily. It takes force. Finally, someone steps up to put India's SC in its place, which has been making a mockery of separation of powers.
FTAs and their discontents: Do free trade agreements benefit India? India's balance of trade has worsened with countries with which it has signed free trade agreements
3nm by 2026: TSMC Commits to $40 Billion investment of Arizona Fab.
Pointing to high costs and a US skills shortage, TSMC has reported challenges to the completion by next December of its new 4 nanometer semiconductor plant north of Phoenix
The eight negations: Nagarjuna's eightfold negations are that there is no becoming, no not being, no annihilation, no persistence, no unity, no diversity, no coming, and no departure.. "Substance does not exist, non-substance also does not exist, nothing that is to be designated by words exists at all. All the things that are designated by words similar to 'nirvan' are void of an own being".
The eight negations are actually four pairs of neither birth nor death, neither end nor permanence, neither identity nor difference, neither coming nor going.
Journalism Competition and Preservation Act: US legislation pits Big Tech against news outlets.. Big Tech benefits tremendously from journalism content, yet they refuse to pay local publishers fairly for the content that fuels their platforms.
Dylan Patel: China's Biren is a bigger threat to Nvidia’s AI training hardware dominance than the competition from Intel, AMD, Graphcore, SambaNova, or Cerebras. How China is attempting to evade US sanctions.
Dabbawalas seek cycling lanes in Mumbai: The iconic Dabbawalas of Mumbai have stressed on the need for cycling lanes in the financial capital of the country and safe parking spaces for their cycles, which is their primary mode of transport for tiffin delivery
Where Indian Army Scores Over PLA: An oft-overlooked military advantage that India has against China is the resilience and fighting quality of our combat forces. In contrast, the average Chinese soldier is a lone male child, pampered by an adoring family and ill-prepared for the hazards and discomforts of the Line of Actual Control.
This man-to-man advantage that Indian jawans on the LAC enjoy over the relatively comfort-loving Chinese soldiers would be eroded once the ranks of hardened jawans, enrolled on long-service tenures, are diluted by significant numbers of so-called Agniveers -- soldiers enrolled on short-service tenures of four years.
Kumbhaka (Breath Retention) and Bohr Effect: According to the Bohr Effect, buildup of CO2 during breath retention (hypoxia) triggers release of oxygen. Oxygen is attached to hemoglobin in the blood, and is then unloaded into the tissues.
Most people have a blood oxygen saturation level of 95-98%, which sounds very high. However, this number is only a measure of oxygen in the blood—not the tissues, where oxygen is needed to energize and repair. Once oxygen is unloaded from hemoglobin due to a breath hold, it can be utilized by tissues. CO2 is then picked up by hemoglobin, escorted to the lungs, and breathed out.
'There really is more to life than posting on Instagram': "I would find myself scrolling at night, and then having a bad night's sleep, and then waking up not feeling refreshed. Now I'm not making comparisons in my day-to-day life, and I don't really know what celebrities are doing".
TikTok is China's Digital Fentanyl: They show a very different version in China than in U.S. “China only allows people to be on TikTok for 40 minutes a day”.
Supplement fetish: Intake of popular commercial dietary supplements like nicotinamide riboside (NR), a form of vitamin B3, could actually increase the risk of serious diseases, including cancer. NR could not only increase the risk of someone developing triple-negative breast cancer but also cause the cancer to spread to the brain, the study said.
Japan's $2.38B Research Center for 2nm node: The research hub will be comprised of Japanese and American semiconductor companies, as well as multiple universities from Japan, the U.S. and Europe. Among the Japanese universities, the business publication names the University of Tokyo, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Riken. . . . . . . . . this is how you do it
'Namma Yatri': Autorickshaw union in Bengaluru launches its own ride-hailing app
Vehicular pollution in Delhi: “While the need is to scale up public transport, when you look at the actual investments in the city, the focus has been on building more roads — bigger roads, flyovers, overpasses and underpasses — to facilitate vehicular movement. And there has been virtually no effort to make paths for pedestrians or cyclists.”
China's CATL: The world’s biggest EV battery producer is about to get even bigger. The company has announced a new $7 billion factory in Hungary and another planned factory in Mexico. The manufacturer could be looking to expand with plants in the U.S. and Indonesia, as well.
Every River is under attack by the sand mafia: After the sale of liquor, the quickest way for politicians to earn a fast buck is from the sale of minerals, boulders and sand. The demand for minerals, boulders and sand is so great that it has fueled a black market and the goons who control this trade do not hesitate to kill law enforcement officers and reporters who have tried to expose them.
Sino-Pak Bioweapon?
Those in the intelligence and scientific community, watching the developments, warn that by using Pakistan, China had outsourced a highly contagious network of laboratories where antigens a hundred times more infectious than the present Covid could be created or `dropped in’.
